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Puri Water Bottle Makes Potable Drinking Water at Sea

During my travels throughout the Middle East and North Africa, I dreamed of having a magical bottle that could purify water without the need...

Radio Waves Carry News of Climate Change

The ionosphere, one of the regions of the upper atmosphere, plays an important role in global communications. Ionized by solar radiation, this electricity-rich region...

Powering Buildings With Bioreactor Algae Skin Facades

A five-story apartment building in Hamburg, Germany gets its juice from its algae skin.  It's an example of the kind of architectural innovation that...

Sol Chip’s Everlasting Solar Battery is a World First

Israeli's Sol-Chip has developed an everlasting solar battery that can power mobile and remote devices continuously using energy from the sun. The implications of an...

Zayed Prize-Winning School Inches Closer to Zero Carbon

The school was the first in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to scoop the prestigious $100,000 Zayed Future Energy Prize in the Global High School...

Powdered Water Hydrates Drought-Stricken Farms

Mexican farmers have been fighting drought with Solid Rain for more than a decade, but the powdered water designed by chemical engineer Sergio Jésus Rico...

SunOven Provides Off-Grid Cooking in 40 Developing Countries

Westerners take access to electricity for granted, but a ridiculous portion of the global population has to scramble for twigs and other unsustainable fuel...

Tiny “Water Chip” Desalinates Water With the Power of a Store-Bought Battery

Water scarcity is probably the most pressing environmental concern in the Middle East region and current desalination technologies are too costly and energy-intensive to...

3-D Printed Plastic Gun Breaches Israeli Parliament Building Undetected!

Israel's security is renowned for being particularly tight, but officials failed to detect a 3-D printed gun when a local TV show snuck it...

Ashalim is Israel’s Largest Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Negev Energy, the new partnership between the Spanish and Israeli companies, will build and operate the 110 MW Parabolic Trough plant under a 25 year power purchase agreement. The energy they produce will sell for NIS0.76 per kilowatt hour, or $0.21.

DESERTEC Leaves its Industrial Partner Dii

More setbacks for Middle East solar or the only way a big dream can move ahead? DESERTEC has canceled its commercial partnership to build a...

World’s First ‘Tablet Cafe’ Circumvents Chronic Power Cuts

The world's first tablet cafe has opened in Dakar and already Google's latest experiment is turning out to be a major game changer. Bordered...

Israel’s Blue I to Detect Floating Dead Pigs in China’s Water

Pollution of fresh water supplies in large Asian countries is becoming more and more serious due to increasing populations and rapid industrialization. This is...

16-year-old Turkish Teen Makes Bioplastic from Banana Peels

Meet Elif Bilgin, the latest in a string of wunderkids from the Middle East and North Africa, who invented a bioplastic made from banana...

$10 Recycled Cardboard Bike Indiegogo Campaign Raises Nearly $20,000 in Two Days

When news of a $10 bicycle made of recycled cardboard first reached our desk, we didn't think it would ever see the light of day,...

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

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